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Gabrielle LordFri, 17 Oct 2014 02:52:15 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2Dishonour and Seattlehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/dishonour-and-seattle/
http://www.gabriellelord.com/dishonour-and-seattle/#commentsSun, 21 Sep 2014 22:31:30 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=597Dishonour is finally published and available. It’s had two good reviews and I’ve been doing some publicity work because no matter how good a book is, if people don’t know that it exists, they obviously can’t buy it or download it.

In less than three weeks I’m off to Seattle for a book tour taking in schools and libraries and wherever C365 is known — and unknown! I have a lot of fans from the US who write to me and it’s always a pleasure receiving their letters. Of course I reply to every one of them.

I’m currently working on the new YA trilogy ’48 Hours’ as well as having a new website built too so look out for some dramatic improvements.
Happy reading.

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http://www.gabriellelord.com/dishonour/#commentsMon, 25 Aug 2014 04:00:22 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=595Finally, Dishonour is in the shops and in eformat August 26th 2014. It was a big learning curve for me when I did the research for this book and spoke with a young woman from Kuwait and two women from Iraq — all in hiding because they’d changed their faith to Christianity. I was inspired by their courage and hopeful spirits. Freedom to choose the life one wishes to live seems to me to be the most basic of all human rights. I also met Det Superintendent Deborah Wallace who was also very helpful and in whose honour I named my fictional Debra. Dishonour is a book about freedom — I loved writing it and I hope readers love reading it.
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http://www.gabriellelord.com/july-already/#commentsSun, 06 Jul 2014 22:22:16 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=581I’ve been really busy writing over the last few months. Finally, my new adult novel “Dishonour’ is finished and is in the book shops (those that are left!) and on line in e-format in September. “Dishonour’ is about a police officer trying to discover the truth about her own police officer father’s death some twenty years earlier while at the same time working to save a young Iraqi woman from being whisked out of the country by her violent brothers for a forced marriage.

I’ve also started the second book of the new YA trilogy, “48 Hours” with Book 1, The Vanishing’ now being in the hands of my trusty editor who will improve it and send it back to me for reworking. I’ve started gathering in the story strands for Book 2 The Curse, and I’m looking forward to storylining that one over the next few weeks.

The world continues to be crazy but here in the author’s studio, all is peaceful and a family of kookaburras have been arriving on my windowsill early every morning, demanding snacks. I had five of them lined up yesterday. They are all very polite and wait their turn patiently.

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http://www.gabriellelord.com/ps-about-lu-rees/#commentsThu, 11 Oct 2012 22:37:16 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=560Lu Rees was a gifted collector of Australian children’s books and her private library formed the basis for this ever-expanding blessing. She collected books, original illustrations from them, letters, photographs, clippings, all sorts of information about Australian children’s writers. She was awarded the MBE and the AM, plus the Dromkeen Medal for services to children’s literature. Truly an outstanding woman who has left a lasting gift to us all.
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http://www.gabriellelord.com/lu-rees-and-ausstralian-childrens-literature/#commentsThu, 11 Oct 2012 22:30:54 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=556Last week I was in Canberra meeting up with fans, readers, librarians and Dr Belle Alderman, who gives her time to maintaining the extraordinary Lu Rees archives, a marvellous collection of Australian writers’ books for young readers. There are well over 20,000 editions now, all together with hundreds of files of information about writers, their lives, their letters, their photographs. If anyone was looking for PhD material, this place would be like a diamond mine, except you wouldn’t have to do much mining — the gems are all catalogued and shelved, just waiting for you! Visit the library of the University of Canberra if you want access to this unique collection. I was extremely impressed. It badly needs a new home as it’s growing very quickly. All the time.

Now I’m back on track, writing Book 16 ‘Hunted’ of the C365 series. Book 15 ‘Missing’ is in the pipeline. Book 17 ‘Combat’ is plotted and is the next book I’ll be writing before Christmas.

Happy reading!

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http://www.gabriellelord.com/the-black-ops-trilogy-known-previously-as-the-secret-project/#commentsSat, 06 Oct 2012 08:49:44 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=553Okay — I can talk about it now! For the last few months and for a few more months I’ve been and will continue to be working on The Black Ops Trilogy. Here’s the gist of it: Cal Ormond has come to the attention of ASIO — or rather, a top secret group in the security forces known only as SI-6– Secret Intelligence 6. The boss of this group has noticed how well Cal behaved over the year he was on the run, how resourceful he was and how he fought through huge obstacles and dangers to solve the mystery of the Ormond Singularity. SI-6 headhunts Cal for a secret mission — a job that only a young guy can do — all their operatives are too old. But Cal has other things on his mind. Ryan has gone missing, and no one knows where he is or why he’s vanished….Has he fallen under the spell of a cult like figure who seems to be recruiting street kids?

I had a great time in Canberra and met some fantastic young fans. Look forward to meeting more and more of you.
Have a great week. And now, back to SI-6

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http://www.gabriellelord.com/canberra-this-week-reviews-and-roses/#commentsSun, 30 Sep 2012 06:14:52 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=551I’m thrilled with Dr Sue Turnbull’s review of “Death by Beauty’ which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Melbourne Age and the Canberra times over this weekend. Sue put the book in perspective, as the fifth in the journey of Gemma Lincoln, PI who first appeared in “Feeding the Demons’ some years ago. It was written under challenging conditions, started in 2009-10, after I’d finished “December’ Book 12 of C365 and picked up again towards the end of 2011, finally coming out in August this year.

Last week was taken up with trying to write as much as I could of the second book of the Secret Project and this week, I’ll be spending much of the time in Canberra attending “Boundless”: The Festival of Australian Children’s Literature, where I’ve been invited to give the keynote address at the Bogong Theatre at 6.30pm. Next day, “Crime in the Library’ Thursday 4th October, will be held in the Civic Library at 12.30 for those who might like to attend. Later in the day, “Malice’, Book 14 of the C365 series will be officially launched — I know some of you have managed to track it down early, and then, I’ll be able to talk about the secret project quite openly!

My roses are really coming on and I picked the first three Pierre de Ronsard today. The house is very quiet again after hosting a visit from my two granddaughters, Cassie and Georgia, who are very easy guests and great readers.

Have a happy week and come and see me if you live in Canberra!

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http://www.gabriellelord.com/settling-down-to-work-again/#commentsSat, 22 Sep 2012 23:13:33 +0000gabriellehttp://www.gabriellelord.com/?p=547After a few exciting weeks of touring and visiting libraries around Australia, and even a brief TV appearance, it’s finally time to pick up the strands again of the new project — I’m now about a third of the way through the second book of a secret trilogy which I know readers are going to love! Anyone who’s bought “Malice’ — and although it’s not officially launched until next month — it’s in some bookshops already — can refer to the back inside cover for more revelations about the new book series.

I was interviewed by David and Sonia on Channel 9 on Thursday morning and some clever person has already posted it on YouTube — if you want to see it, just Google Death by Beauty and it will appear. The magic of cyberspace and websites.

The next few weeks will see me hunkered down and finishing Book 2 so that my clever editors at Scholastic can go through it and shine it up for me! That’s all I’ll be doing — apart from a little therapeutic gardening.